Announcements

The ASBMB's Interactive Mentoring Activities for Grantsmanship Enhancement (IMAGE) grant-writing workshop is for assistant professors and postdocs who are transitioning into independent faculty positions. The deadline to apply is April 13. Learn more

In the February issue, we mark Black History Month with a look at health disparities research and a Q&A with college and university presidents from underrepresented groups. Ashley Warfield-Oyirifi lays out a plan to situate the sciences in their social context to retain students of color. Also, in this installment of our “When Science Meets Sickness” series, a scientist researches his own childhood illness. Read the February issue .

Look back on 2017 with The Year in JBC , a special collection of papers across JBC’s subject areas. And catch up on review papers you may have missed with the 2017 Minireview Compendium . Both of the collections are free to download. Share them with your peers and students.

Molecular & Cellular Proteomics is the home
for papers describing new, impactful technologies that make substantial
contributions to the understanding of proteomics. As described in the
editors' January editorial , papers describing
these technologies do not have to include solutions to biological
problems. The editors encourage authors to submit technology papers to
MCP.

Influential bioenergetics and enzyme kinetics researcher Harvey S. Penefsky passed away in July at the age of 92. Penefsky’s kinetic insights shaped the understanding of the mechanism of ATP synthase. This research provided the groundwork for Paul D. Boyer, who elucidated the enzymatic mechanism of ATP synthase.